Mar 26, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM (MT)
Affordable housing in Colorado: Financing and Intergovernmental Collaboration
March 26, 2024, noon - 1:30 PM
Zoom
Program Description:
Cody Wilson and Nate Eckloff, of Piper Sandler will discuss the financing of affordable housing projects and related matters citing federal regulation and Colorado case examples. Mo Miskell, Andrew Atchley, and Robyn Difalco of The Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) will discuss grant funding opportunities for funds administered through DOLA and intergovernmental collaboration in Colorado for affordable housing.
Speaker Bios:
Cody Wilson
Cody Wilson is a Managing Director with Piper Sandler & Co. Municipal Real Estate Investment Banking Group. Mr. Wilson has over 16 years of experience in real estate finance and investment banking. Mr. Wilson provides significant expertise in real estate development opportunity analysis, and in the funding, implementation and delivery of real estate projects, including projects delivered through public-private partnerships (P3s). Mr. Wilson has completed over $15 billion of projects and working capital needs for a variety of borrowers. The types of financings have included HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, USDA, private label securitization, direct bond/loan placements, subordinate bonds, investment grade and non-investment grade bonds, and essential function bonds.
Mr. Wilson earned a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Troy University and an MBA, with honors, from Troy University.
Nate Eckloff
Nate Eckloff is a managing director in the public finance investment banking group in the Denver office of Piper Sandler. Eckloff has assisted in the issuance of over $25 billion in municipal bonds during his 40+ years in the public finance industry. His public finance practice is primarily focused in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and Florida. Eckloff's experience covers a wide range of tax-exempt and taxable municipal finance including general obligation bonds, public power and water and sewer revenue bonds, excise tax and non-ad valorem revenue bonds (sales tax, gas tax, etc.), special assessment bonds, higher education revenue bonds, healthcare revenue bonds and lease-purchase certificates of participation. He has served numerous school districts, special districts, cities, towns, counties and other state and local government issuers throughout his
career.
Eckloff started his public finance career at Coughlin and Company in Denver, a firm focusing on health care and general governmental finance in the Rocky Mountain Region. Prior to joining Piper Sandler, he was with RBC Capital Markets for 17 years and prior to that with Hanifen Imhoff/Stifel in Denver for 13 years. Prior to his public finance career, Nate was an associate with the law firm of Saunders, Snyder Ross and Dickson in Denver. He has presented at numerous industry meetings including the Bond Buyer Conference, the Bond Market Association and several state and local Government Finance Officer Association meetings including the Treasure Coast (Florida), Colorado and Hawaii organizations. He is currently an associate member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) and is the president of the Colorado Municipal Bond Dealers Association
(CMBDA). Nate is a past chairman of the board of the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame and a past president of the University of Nebraska Alumni Association in Lincoln.
Eckloff received his Juris doctorate and his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Denver and his bachelor's degree in agricultural honors from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the proud owner of the family farm in Nebraska, which has been in the family since the 1870s. He holds Series 7, 8, 24, 50, 52, 53, 63 and 79 securities licenses and is a licensed attorney in Colorado.
Robyn DiFalco
Robyn DiFalco is the Program Manager for the Local Planning Capacity Grants Program, with the Division of Local Government (DLG) within DOLA. This new program, created with Prop 123 funds, supports local government planning efforts to expedite affordable housing development review or advance local affordable housing goals. She has helped facilitate DOLA's implementation of Prop 123, providing technical assistance to local governments on the Prop 123 requirements. Robyn has a degree in Geography & Planning from CSU, Chico and a background in nonprofit grants management, project management and executive administration.
Mo Miskell
Mo Miskell has been serving as the Deputy Director for Colorado's Department of Local Affairs' Division of Housing (DOH) since May 2, 2022. Previously, he operated as DOH's Director of its Office of Regulatory Oversight for roughly two years. This office was created to house both the Building Codes & Standards Section (BCS), which he was first hired as the Program Manager to oversee starting on August 7, 2017, and the Mobile Home Park Oversight Program (MHPOP), which he began implementing as a new program effective May 23, 2019. BCS primarily regulates the construction of modulars in the state, as well as the sale and installation of manufactured homes. MHPOP works to resolve disputes between mobile home parks and owners of mobile homes situated in mobile home parks. Most recently, Mo has been involved in the
successful implementation of Proposition 123 and to that effect, collaborating closely with the Division of Local Government, the Office of Economic Development & International Trade, the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, local and tribal governments, nonprofits, developers, and other interested stakeholders.
Andrew Atchley has worked in affordable housing since 2010 and has been with the State since 2018, when he escaped the Front Range to the San Luis Valley. He's worked in nearly every corner of the state and is a tireless advocate for rural Colorado.
Applied for 1 general credit.